I switched from Gmail to Proton, but now with everything coming out about Proton I’m switching from them too. I started using Posteo which I like but a lot of my accounts having to do with money and finance (including my bank) aren’t accepting the Posteo email. They have rejected it over and over and even locked me out stating that I was hacked.
Do you guys have any recommendations for email providers to use that also won’t send red flags to my more official accounts?
If it helps, I’m US-based.
I personally suggest against Tuta as they refuse to implement support for open-standard E-Mail encryption like PGP. But they’re definitely better than Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, GMX, etc.
I’m genuinely curious if PGP is used on emails much? It seems like most email these days is just receiving updates or mailing lists, and those aren’t going to be using PGP.
This is rather a niche case, but I regulary file complaints to data protection authorities in Germany, and many of them do actually offer the option to encrypt the emails they send to you using PGP, same for a police report I once made.
I respect your choice and right, Tuta is not compatible with PGP, but that doesn’t mean I (a Tuta user) can’t send an encrypted message to someone on another service or receive one. In that scenario, there’s just a bit of server code that users interact with in between to enable my encrypted message to be read by others outside of Tuta.
The process is documented here: https://tuta.com/blog/email-encryption-guide-how-send-encrypted-email
If the email’s recipient is on Tuta, they just read my message in any of the available client apps.
I agree just supporting PGP as an option in Tuta would be better, but I think someone considering their options should know about the above. The current Tuta process works for me.
I share this concern.
I’m new at this, but the biggest reason I’m not going with Tuta is that I want encryption that is interoperable with other providers that offer encryption.
What do you mean by refuse? Did the shoot down a feature request?
Their marketing shoots down PGP on their website with false claims why their encryption is so much better. They for example claim that PGP does not encrypt the subject line, which is false as that is already supported, just not adopted everywhere yet.